Friday recap: arguments for the existence of God, Chris Mooney, and more!

I’m going to experiment with doing weekly recap posts. This is partly because I got more blogging done than usual this week, including four posts on Wednesday, and people not used to that may have missed some things. Are these worth doing? Let me know what you think. But without further ado:

Over the next several weeks, I’ll be writing a series of posts which won’t give the patient account of the arguments for the existence of that many may feel entitled to. What I will do, though, is explain in as carefully as carefully as I can without boring anyone why I don’t think any arguments for the existence of God come anywhere close to being good.

The next post in the series was Bill O’Reilly’s argument for the existence of God, which with a little help from Reddit quickly became one of my most-viewed posts of all time. In it, I take down an argument O’Reilly has used when Richard Dawkins and David Silverman have come on his show, an argument that’s frustratingly popular among believers (including well-educated ones who should know better).

Currently, the most commented-on post of the week is Catholics: why aren’t you Protestant? where I point out that many of the reasons Catholics give for staying Catholic would be equally good reasons for being Protestant, which combined with the Catholic Church’s appalling crimes suggests many Catholics ought to be Protestants.